The Legacy
A Thriller
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4.2 • 88 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The first in a stunning new series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel.
The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar.
The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she’s not talking.
Newly-promoted, out of his depth, detective Huldar turns to Freyja for her expertise with traumatized young people. Freyja, who distrusts the police in general and Huldar in particular, isn’t best pleased. But she’s determined to keep little Margret safe.
It may prove tricky. The killer is leaving them strange clues, but can they crack the code? And if they do, will they be next?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This relentlessly paced series launch from Sigurdardottir (The Undesired) is as stark and horrifying as any of the ancient Icelandic sagas. In 1987, three orphaned siblings fall victim to bureaucratic exigency: the sister, because she is more desirable to potential adoptive parents, is separated from her two older brothers. Flash forward to 2015, when an intruder slips into the Reykjav k home of Elisa, a young mother, while her husband is away and brutally murders her. Huldar, a police detective shakily directing his first homicide investigation, joins forces with Freyja, a psychologist specializing in the care of traumatized children. Margr t, Elisa's unhappy eldest child who was cowering under the bed where her mother was killed, gradually reveals clues to the killer's identity. Meanwhile, Karl, a reclusive loner, untangles clues he hears on his ham radio. Sigurdardottir's trademark sly ironies, often directed at official fumbling, can be downright ghoulish. Others are deliciously hilarious: Huldar and Freyja, pulled together for the case, realize they had a "well-oiled" one-night stand a little earlier. Each character is brilliantly conceived. Few readers will be able to put down this powerful tale of revenge.
Customer Reviews
The legacy
Surprising twist end was very satisfying
Gross!
I liked many of the characters in this book, and the mystery was intriguing. But the murders were incredibly disgusting, and the denoument/solution too Gothic. I won’t be reading another by this author!
Not the Yrsa I knew
This book is not like anything she has done before, and I hope won’t do again.